Cloud- and platform-neutral
Hyground runs in any Kubernetes cluster, on any cloud or on-premises, and reasons over OSS and multi-cloud stacks. Azure SRE Agent is built for and operated within Azure; its depth is on Azure resources.
Hyground vs Azure SRE Agent
Run the agent in your own environment, on any cloud, not as a Microsoft-operated Azure service
Azure SRE Agent is a Microsoft-operated agent that investigates Azure resources, runs on Microsoft's models, and bills in Azure Agent Units. Hyground installs into your own Kubernetes cluster on any cloud or on-premises, connects the LLM you choose, and keeps credentials and data in your network.
Where the agent runs and what it is tied to
Azure SRE Agent is a managed service inside Azure: deep context on Azure resources, built-in subagents for architecture, logs and metrics, source code, root cause, and scanning, ingestion from ICM, PagerDuty, and ServiceNow, and safe mitigations behind guardrails, all operated by Microsoft and billed per Azure Agent Unit. Hyground runs inside your cluster, stays neutral across clouds and stacks, and keeps the model and credentials under your control.
Architecture
Where Hyground differs
Six choices that change which clouds you can cover, where your data flows, and how you are billed.
Sovereign by architecture
Hyground runs entirely in your environment, with credentials behind an in-cluster gateway, platform-level RBAC, and an audit trail. Azure SRE Agent is a Microsoft-operated service; investigation and data flow through Azure under a managed service identity.
Bring or self-host your LLM
Connect Hyground to Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, or a self-hosted Ollama endpoint through LiteLLM, including models that never leave your network. Azure SRE Agent runs on Microsoft's models under Microsoft's contracts.
Read-only by default
Both keep a human in the loop. Hyground is read-only by default, with actions gated behind explicit opt-in, and does not depend on a cloud provider's managed service identity to operate.
Speaks the OSS observability stack
Hyground ships first-party connectors for Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch, plus bidirectional Jira and ServiceNow. Azure SRE Agent leans on Azure Monitor and the surrounding Azure ecosystem.
Predictable, infrastructure-based licensing
Hyground licenses on infrastructure size and ships as a Helm chart you can uninstall. Azure SRE Agent bills per Azure Agent Unit, an always-on meter plus usage-based charges inside your Azure bill.
Decision
When each tool fits
Azure SRE Agent and Hyground both act as a digital SRE, but one is native to a single cloud and the other is sovereign and portable.
Choose Hyground when
You run multi-cloud, on-premises, or OSS-heavy stacks, need data and the LLM to stay in your network, or want an agent that is not tied to one vendor's cloud and billing.
Choose Azure SRE Agent when
Your estate is all-in on Azure and you want a Microsoft-operated agent that lives natively in the Azure portal and billing.
See Hyground in action
Try the sandbox or schedule a demo and watch the agent investigate against a real cluster.